Why Join GS1 Membership?

Benefits to Registered Users

As a registered user member of GS1 Singapore, you will enjoy the following services and benefits:

Immediate allocation of GS1 Company Prefix (GCP) for your company for the purpose of generating full sets of GS1 bar code numbers for your products; including allocation of Global Location Number (GLN) for identification of your company’s physical location.

Membership starter kit to assist you to have a better understanding of GS1 article number system and its usage.

Technical advice on numbering and symbol marking matters which include bar code and EPC/RFID related applications.

Access to National Electronic Product Catalogue (NEPC), a secured members’ portal for easy management of your product listings and allocation of bar codes to your products.

Benefits to Manufacturers

As a manufacturer, you could utilised the GS1 number allocated to you by GS1 Singapore to derive the following benefits:

Market your products to local retailers and export to overseas market whereby retailers had computerised their operations in using Bar-Code to enhance their competitiveness and productivity.

Capture immediate sales information at the point-of-sale to schedule accurate production and stocks. Therefore, stocks can be reduced to the most economic levels without the risk of running out and savings will result with reduction in buffer stocks and warehousing space.

Accurate and fast assessment of the sales success or failure of new products and product promotions.

Decrease book keeping time as POS scanning systems provide the capacity to continuously record the activities of each individual checker. By tracing cash balances pick-ups; loans etc the frequency with which individual checkers must be balance out can be reduced.